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No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Amish hardware store]]? | No such thing. Are you looking for the [[Lehmans|Amish hardware store]]? | ||
Actually, Lehman ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | Actually, [[Lehman]] ''is'' a thing, and it drifts on like [[Nosferatu]], the un-dead, still spreading its influence over everything we do in a way that its bodily manifestation in life was plainly unable to. [[MF Global]] has a similar effect, though there, memories fade. We are but mortal. | ||
For [[Lehman]] is a [[risk controller]]’s [[magic incantation]] — a [[hex]], a [[horcrux]], a way of killing lively debate stone dead in its tracks. For any new initiative, any pragmatic proposal to do things in a smarter way, can be derailed by oblique reference to the sad demise of Lehman | For [[Lehman]] is a [[risk controller]]’s [[magic incantation]] — a [[hex]], a [[horcrux]], a way of killing lively debate stone dead in its tracks. For any new initiative, any pragmatic proposal to do things in a smarter way, can be derailed by oblique reference to the sad demise of [[Lehman Brothers]], however irrelevant it may be. For, as we all know, [[Chicken-licken|the sky fell in]] on {{t|Lehman}}’s head because it tried to standardize its business and create robust operational flows that didn't involve [[credit]] sitting on [[cross default]] [[escalation]]s for three weeks. | ||
Similarly, | Similarly, [[Magic circle law firm|counsel]] will resist any stroke of your pen against their mangled syntax on the solemn, but unelucidated, pretext that they “lived through the [[Lehman]] administration” and are so scarred by the experience<ref>Look, let’s face facts, campers: the [[Lehman]] collapse was hardly some POW chain-gang on Burma Railway for our learned friends, so hold those crocodile tears.</ref> that that record must state, in [[legal triplicate]]s, obvious truisms (like [[Time is of the essence|time being of the essence]] [[shall]] not vitiate [[applicable]] contractual [[grace period]]s — real-life example) and under no circumstances can one be as foolhardy as to countenance an appeal to the common sense or formal symbolic logic to be applied by the [[Queen’s Bench Division]] of the High Court of Justice in England and Wales. | ||
Had only its [[credit]] team been allowed to vacillate nervously for weeks upon end about whether to waive {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} for [[Hedge fund]] clients, [[Lehman]] might still be with us today. | Had only its [[credit]] team been allowed to vacillate nervously for weeks upon end about whether to waive {{isdaprov|Credit Event Upon Merger}} for [[Hedge fund]] clients, [[Lehman]] might still be with us today. |